After years of hype about its autonomous driving system, the facts are coming out about how safe Tesla and Autopilot really are.
Elon Musk’s company admits three of its vehicles have crashed while Autopilot was engaged, including one fatal accident in which Joshua Brown’s vehicle ran directly into a semi truck. In the wake of Brown’s death, Musk claimed Autopilot would save thousands of lives if it was deployed universally today. That bold claim is based on insufficient data and flawed comparisons between Tesla vehicles and all other cars that stack the deck in favor of the company.

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